Recall Register

Forest River Windsong: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Forest River Windsong, model years 1997 to 2004. NHTSA has 12 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 8 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19971
  2. 19981
  3. 19992
  4. 20002
  5. 20013
  6. 20024
  7. 20033
  8. 20041
Forest River Windsong: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Forest River Windsong NHTSA page100%48,876
2003 Forest River Windsong36400%178,076
2002 Forest River Windsong4167%178,296
2001 Forest River Windsong3167%129,420
2000 Forest River Windsong22133%129,200
1999 Forest River Windsong200%128,070
1998 Forest River Windsong NHTSA page12133%128,000
1997 Forest River Windsong NHTSA page100%128,000

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

14 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Forest River Windsong: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Tires285.74
Service Brakes, Hydraulic142.92
Exterior Lighting71.41
Parking Brake71.41
Power Train71.41
Vehicle Speed Control71.41
Visibility71.41
Wheels71.41
Service Brakes, Electric71.41
Service Brakes, Air71.41

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Forest River Windsong, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Forest River Windsong, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Forest River: all 83 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Forest River Windsong: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/forest-river/windsong/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
FOREST RIVER, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Forest River Windsong model years have the most recall campaigns?
2002 with 4, 2003 with 3, 2001 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Forest River Windsong model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 6 of the 12 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Forest River Windsong name?
Tires: 4 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 1 component mention.